Acid-catalyzed synthesis of mono-and dialkyl benzenes over zeolites: Active sites, zeolite topology, and reaction mechanisms

J Čejka, B Wichterlová - Catalysis reviews, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
This review describes mechanisms of catalytic reactions leading to mono-and dialkyl
benzenes over zeolites, which represent an important part of petrochemical products. The …

Half a century of scrambling in organic ions: complete, incomplete, progressive and composite atom interchange

D Kuck - International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, 2002 - Elsevier
Positional exchange of atoms within the given frameworks of gaseous ions and positional
exchange of the framework atoms themselves—generally addressed as atom scrambling …

Alkylation of phenol: a mechanistic view

Q Ma, D Chakraborty, F Faglioni… - The Journal of …, 2006 - ACS Publications
The current work utilizes the ab initio density functional theory (DFT) to develop a molecular
level of the mechanistic understanding on the phenol alkylation in the presence of a cation …

Ion-neutral complexes of protonated alkylbenzenes: Experimental and theoretical studies

D Berthomieu, V Brenner, G Ohanessian… - The Journal of …, 1995 - ACS Publications
In the gas phase, the unimolecular reactions of metastable protonated alkyl arenes lead to
alkyl cation formation with arene loss, protonated arene formation with alkene loss, and …

Intermolecular interactions: basis set and intramolecular correlation effects on semiempirical methods. Application to (C2H2)2, (C2H2)3 and (C2H4)2

V Brenner, P Millie - Zeitschrift für Physik D Atoms, Molecules and Clusters, 1994 - Springer
A detailed study of the intrinsic consistency of the semiempirical method of P. Claverie
namely, the effects of the basis set and intramolecular correlation on the multipole …

Does an ethene/benzenium ion complex exist? A discrepancy between B3LYP and MP2 predictions

S Kolboe, S Svelle - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2008 - ACS Publications
To investigate the possible existence of a complex between the benzenium ion and ethene,
computations employing B3LYP and MP2 were carried out. The two methodologies gave …

Theoretical study of ethylbenzenium ions: The mechanism for splitting off ethene, and the formation of a π complex of ethene and the benzenium ion

S Kolboe, S Svelle, B Arstad - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2009 - ACS Publications
Structures and energies of protonated ethylbenzene and 2, 6-dimethylethylbenzene have
been studied by quantum chemical calculations. The main goal is to study the mechanism …

Calculated and Experimental Structures of the p-Difluorobenzene-(H2O) n= 1-3 Clusters in Their Different Electronic States and Inference for Ionic Nucleophilic …

V Brenner, S Martrenchard-Barra, P Millié… - The Journal of …, 1995 - ACS Publications
The equilibrium geometries and corresponding binding energies of the different electronic
states (ground, excited and ionic) of/?-difluorobenzene—(H20)„= i-3 clusters havebeen …

Energetics and Structure of Complexes of Al+ with Small Organic Molecules in the Gas Phase

F Bouchard, V Brenner, C Carra… - The Journal of …, 1997 - ACS Publications
A new experimental apparatus is described which permits the determination of binding
energetics for metal− ligand complexes. This technique mates laser ablation for the …

An alternative route to electrophilic substitution. 2. Aromatic alkylation in the ion neutral complexes formed upon addition of gaseous arenium ions to olefins

M Aschi, M Attina, F Cacace - Journal of the American Chemical …, 1995 - ACS Publications
The joint application of mass spectrometric and radiolytic techniques has allowed
demonstration of an alternative route to electrophilic aromatic substitution operative in …